Tehran, YJC. President says he is not happy with the state of affairs on women in society.

President
Hassan Rouhani speaking in a conference on the occasion of women’s day in Iran said
on Sunday morning "As a jurist and the head of the country’s executive body, I have
to admit that there is much shortcoming regarding women’s rights and gender
discrimination.”

"We
do not see women and men against each other, but by each other. They both have
human status and dignity. Neither is above the other. Neither is the lower one.
They are the same being,” Rouhani stated.

Pointing
to the significance of women in the Islamic Iran’s history he said "In the
history of Iran where since centuries ago women have risen to realize their
rights, they have spoken and acted and traveled the path to sublimation.”

The
president then asserted "Those who are afraid of women’s freedom in the
legitimate Islamic terms and who are afraid of women’s rights and sublimation
or who have other ideas, please, do not name such a faulty criticism after Islam
or the Quran.”

He further added "We will stand
neither the culture of harshness nor cultural harshness, neither the culture of
discrimination nor cultural discrimination, neither the culture of extreme nor
cultural extremism for society, no less for women.”

Rouhani concluded that the
government will be faithful in its word where it promised women a more
prominent social role.

Women’s
day in Iran is the anniversary of the birth of Fatima, Prophet Muhammad’s
daughter and sole heir.